Marvel Comics Reveals Superior Iron Man, Avengers NOW!

UPDATE: A better look at Iron Man's new suit was revealed on Mashable.

The original story is below.

First Thor, then Captain America, and now Iron Man is getting a huge shakeup. As announced by Entertainment Weekly, Superior Iron Man #1 by writer Tom Taylor and artist Yildiray Cinar will hit shelves this fall, chronicling a new direction in Tony Stark's life as he dons new silver armor and moves from New York City to San Francisco.

“The newly-transformed Superior Iron Man has very ambitious plans for the city that some of its residents embrace, but not all,” Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso told EW.

Alonso also addressed the use of the adjective "superior," which comic fans last saw in Superior Spider-Man when villain Doctor Octopus took over the web-slinger's body for an extended period of time. Nothing like that will be happening to Iron Man, but Alonso did say, “Like the Superior Spider-Man, Superior Iron Man is a character that’s hard to root for.”

As for the Apple-influenced design of Iron Man's new armor, Alonso jokingly referred as his "Genius Bar costume" and said that it looks that way for a reason.

These changes are all part of Marvel's newly announced Avengers NOW! initiative, which will see a slew of new comics and fresh jumping on points for readers. So basically it will be Marvel NOW! all over again, but this time just for the Avengers line.

You'll notice that normally less prominent characters like Doctor Strange, Ant-Man and Scarlet Witch are featured on the Avengers NOW! art, which shows a bit of synergy with Marvel Studios. Ant-Man is getting his own movie, Scarlet Witch is in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and a Doctor Strange movie is reportedly in the works. So while Marvel's "big three" couldn't look more different, the publisher is still able to align with their movie plans.

Other characters include Medusa and Inferno, part of the Inhuman franchise Marvel is trying to make happen. Angela -- a former Spawn character from Image Comics -- continues to get further incorporated into Marvel via Thor's mythology (she's his sister and comes from the Tenth Realm). The Winter Solider is making a return to prominence as a space-faring assassin. And Deathlok is getting his own solo series spinning out of the events of Original Sin. EW reports there are more than 10 new titles in the works, so expect these characters to be featured in some of them.

On an inside baseball note, it's especially interesting to see Taylor as the writer of Superior Iron Man considering that he has been DC's golden boy as of late, cranking out the smash hit Injustice series and leading the charge on their Earth 2 comics.

While he didn't change gender or race like Thor and Cap, Iron Man's changes certainly are notable for the character. What do you think of Iron Man's new suit? Will you check out any Avengers NOW! comics? Let us know in the comments!

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